Reality Quotes
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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. (Quote by - George Steiner)
There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful. (Quote by - Nadine Gordimer)
It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)
What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists. (Quote by - Peter Nivio Zarlenga)
The charter will henceforth be a reality (Quote by - Louis Philippe)
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away. (Quote by - Guy Finley)
You have to know the reality and the reality is that we are eternal. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. (Quote by - Bruce Lee)
Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it. (Quote by - Katharine Brush)
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality. (Quote by - Gary Zukav)
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not.... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. (Quote by - Cardinal John Henry Newman)
A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life. (Quote by - Celia Luce)
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. (Quote by - Dr. Alexis Carrel)
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)
I don't confuse soap with reality - I don't, others do. (Quote by - William Roache)
Something that looks good does not necessarily taste good. (Quote by - Taiwanese Proverb)
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be. (Quote by - Ralph Cudworth)
Realists do not fear the results of their study. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevski)
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. (Quote by - Ernest Bramah)
The game needs to deal with this reality [on news all bowlers bend their elbows more than thought] (Quote by - Michael Holding)
Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. (Quote by - Roger Starr)
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Now real are imagination's figments as the sun does new figs mint. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. (Quote by - M.C. Escher)
Fancy tortures more people than does reality (Quote by - Ouida)
We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. (Quote by - William James)
The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Things are the way they are because they were the way they were. (Quote by - Fred Hoyle)
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. [Appearance and Reality, Preface] (Quote by - F H Bradley)
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself (Quote by - Richard Hammond)
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. (Quote by - Democritus)
And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real. (Quote by - Shirley Maclaine)
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. (Quote by - Jack Welch)
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. (Quote by - Jack Wagner)
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. (Quote by - Martin Luther King)
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is. (Quote by - Ben Stein)
Suffering points out that there is falsehood somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality when your falsehoods clash with the truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering. (Quote by - Anthony de Mello)
These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality? (Quote by - George Moore)
Don't confuse facts with reality. (Quote by - Robert D. Ballard)
In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. (Quote by - Lionel Trilling)
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. (Quote by - Ralph Marston)
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains (Quote by - Lucretius)
You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality. (Quote by - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider)
You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. (Quote by - Les Brown)
Guys die down here on a regular basis-that's the reality. They die here for a nickel. They are killed for a piece of change or because somebody looks at somebody wrong. (Quote by - Mark Holthaus)
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. (Quote by - Thomas Nagel)
In reality, killing time Is only the name for another of the multifarious ways By which Time kills us. (Quote by - Sir Osbert Sitwell)
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time. (Quote by - Paul Cezanne)
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed. (Quote by - Salma Hayek)
The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams. (Quote by - Francois Rodin)
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion. (Quote by - Anonymous)
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr)
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. (Quote by - Alan Watts )
The optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. (Quote by - J. Robert Oppenheimer)
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real. (Quote by - Mal Pancoast)
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be moulded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. (Quote by - Theodore H White)
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality. (Quote by - Ram Dass)
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity (Quote by - George Santayana)
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Quote by - Bernadette Devlin)
Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. (Quote by - John Pilger)
In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. (Quote by - Paul Harvey)
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. (Quote by - Jessamyn West)
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. (Quote by - Joyce Carol Oates)
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. (Quote by - Jules de Gaultier)
Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting. (Quote by - Eleanor Perenyi)
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better. (Quote by - John Kotter)
Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that! (Quote by - Ben Harper)
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid. (Quote by - Aldous Leonard Huxley)
It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality! (Quote by - Michael Jeter)
What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch. (Quote by - Jane Wagner)
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement. (Quote by - John Byrne)
In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. (Quote by - B H Liddell Hart)
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. (Quote by - William James)
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. (Quote by - Eckhart Tolle)
Reality is a sliding door. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. (Quote by - J. G. Ballard)
You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. (Quote by - Leroy Eldridge)
We have all the different representations of humanity in the family. And, within this family, there has to be total freedom. There has to be the freedom to be yourself. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
A theory must be tempered with reality. (Quote by - Nehru)
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is. (Quote by - Saint Theresa)
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! (Quote by - Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. (Quote by - E.H. Gombrich)
As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that. (Quote by - Hughes Mearns)
He knows that every thought to which he gives birth ends not with himself, but affects many others as well. (Quote by - C.W. Leadbeater)
The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality. (Quote by - Francoise Sagan)
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
Reality bites with a variety of sizes of teeth. (Quote by - Tony Follari)
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Reality in our century is not something to be faced. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. (Quote by - Shana Alexander)
But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven. (Quote by - John Lennon)
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false? (Quote by - Simone Weil)
I believe that sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it. (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)
Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
Over time that mix will change. As the country comes to more accept the reality of the crisis, there's going to be much more receptivity to a full-blown discussion of the solutions. (Quote by - Al Gore)
I am talking to those who desire to awaken to the reality of life and create for themselves the true way of thinking and living. (Quote by - Krishnamurti)
When you argue with reality, you lose - but only 100% of the time. (Quote by - Byron Katie)
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts. (Quote by - Victor Daniels)
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. (Quote by - Ben Harper)
There are no facts, only interpretations. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
We've always been a bit out of touch with reality. (Quote by - Jarvis Cocker)
The reality is more excellent than the report. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you see a whole thing--it seems it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. (Quote by - Ursula K. Le Guin)
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality. (Quote by - Mark Victor Hansen)
I have incredible empathy for their perception of reality, partly because of what I've been through in it. (Quote by - Ram Dass)
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? (Quote by - M.C. Escher)
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. (Quote by - M. Scott Peck)
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. (Quote by - Peter Garrett)
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. (Quote by - Natalie Clifford Barney)
It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream. (Quote by - Ella R Bloor)
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
Truth is reality. (Quote by - Mary Caroline Richards)
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other. (Quote by - Swami Brahmanada)
Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire. (Quote by - Robert Iger)
Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality. (Quote by - Gwen John)
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
A light is still a light, even though the blind man cannot see it. (Quote by - Austrian Proverb)
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure. (Quote by - Anonymous)
It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. (Quote by - Rufus Wainwright )
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Human kind cannot bear too much reality. (Quote by - T S Elliot)
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. (Quote by - Helen Schucman)
Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist . (Quote by - Rajneesh)
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent. (Quote by - Bertie Charles Forbes)
You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are. (Quote by - Alan Watts)
One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. [Just one of the many differences between art and reality!] (Quote by - Gunther Grass)
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. (Quote by - Al Gore)
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. (Quote by - Cicero)
I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real (Quote by - Garry Shandling)
Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person. (Quote by - Scott Peck)
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they're not worth getting stressed about. (Quote by - Richard Branson)
You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable. (Quote by - Chuck Knox)
Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have imagine. (Quote by - David Almond Skellig)
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. (Quote by - Rene Daumal)
But you know the temptation to reject the truth and try to manufacture your own reality is what got us into Iraq. (Quote by - Al Gore)
The reality of it is is that we are in reality. (Quote by - Scott Johnson)
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? (Quote by - Woody Allen)
All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
We content ourselves that friendship is a reality, and not a fancy - that it is built upon a rock. (Quote by - Douglas Fairbanks)
Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. (Quote by - Chief Seattle)
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do. (Quote by - Erich Gutkind)
A cause a day keeps reality away. (Quote by - Jim Fraser)
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their "agreement," as falsity means their disagreement, with "reality." (Quote by - William James)
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. (Quote by - Gandhi)
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. (Quote by - Friedensreich Hundertwasser )
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. (Quote by - Peter McWilliams)
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
It's easy to sit and judge, but it's tougher when you have to go through 12 years of training, and ask the same questions yourself. (Quote by - David Wells)
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. (Quote by - Huston Smith)
Presenting Saturday mornings has been a dream for a long time. And one day in September I am going to wake up very early and it will be a reality. I can't wait. (Quote by - Fearne Cotton)
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible. (Quote by - John Lennon)
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. (Quote by - John Irving)
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. (Quote by - Sean O'Faolain)
The other reason is because I'm a masochistic freak on appearing on reality TV. (Quote by - Natalie Appleton)
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. (Quote by - Tom Clancy)
Reality continues to ruin my life (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality. (Quote by - Marguerite De Valois)
Reality is something you rise above. (Quote by - Liza Minnelli)
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Ever since I was a little girl I have dreamt of starring in a West End show and this is one of those times where the reality is even better than the dream. (Quote by - Claire Sweeney)
The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality. (Quote by - John Snow)
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you cn sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. (Quote by - Margaret Halsey)
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beautie; The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself (Quote by - Abbott Berenice)
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. (Quote by - Les Brown)
To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (Quote by - Philip K Dick)
The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it. (Quote by - Danish Proverb)
Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to us (Quote by - Alan Hale)
Everything is self-evident. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons (Quote by - Richard Wright)
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality. (Quote by - Harold S. Geneen)
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. (Quote by - Hermann Hesse)
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. (Quote by - Jennifer Yane)
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
Few people have the imagination for reality. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed (Quote by - R. D. Laing)
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him? (Quote by - Calvin and Hobbes)
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities. (Quote by - Theodor S. Geisel)
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. (Quote by - Jimmy Stewart)
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray. (Quote by - Laura Schlessinger)
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it (Quote by - Ben Okri)
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. (Quote by - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. (Quote by - David G. Myers)
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. (Quote by - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill)
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality. (Quote by - Ethan Coen)
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. (Quote by - Salma Hayek)
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality (Quote by - Muriel Rukeyser)
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. (Quote by - Tupac Shakur)
The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet. (Quote by - Bob Brown)
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something — reality — that may not be understood at all. (Quote by - Michael Crichton)
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. (Quote by - Henry Miller )
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)
Reality becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it. (Quote by - Joyce Cary)
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality. (Quote by - Bob Marley)
Whatever you believe with emotion becomes your reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
The ultimate security is your understanding of reality. (Quote by - H. Stanley Judd)
The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning. (Quote by - Charles Tremper)
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility. (Quote by - Martin Heidegger)
After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous. (Quote by - Linda Evans)
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. (Quote by - Arthur Christopher Benson)
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined. (Quote by - Chris Marker)
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. (Quote by - Robert H Goddard)
Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. (Quote by - Phillip K Dick)
People see the world not as it is, but as they are. (Quote by - Al Lee)
At some point, reality has its day. I hope they'll change. I think there is a chance they'll change. (Quote by - Al Gore)
Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality. (Quote by - Timothy Leary)
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)
I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality. (Quote by - Christina Ricci)
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry (Quote by - Georges Braque)
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else. (Quote by - Hob Broun)
In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete. (Quote by - Li Hongzhi)
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Everything in the past died yesterday, and everything in the future is born today. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
If you haven't attained true clear vision, this causes you to lapse into extremes, so that you lose contact with reality. (Quote by - Zen Master Yuanwu)
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. (Quote by - John Gardner)
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is. (Quote by - Annie Besant)
The most dangerous place for a woman statistically speaking is not in the street. It's in her own home. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. (Quote by - Dr. Wayne Walter Dyer)
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. (Quote by - Aesop)
You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality. (Quote by - Niki Lauda)
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. (Quote by - Christopher Darlington Morley)
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. (Quote by - Otto Rank)
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
I accept reality and dare not question it. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes. (Quote by - Connie Miller)
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. (Quote by - Oscar Hammerstein II)
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be--whether they will admit that or not. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. (Quote by - Paul Eldridge)
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom? (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
It's hard to face reality when reality has many faces. (Quote by - Tony Follari)
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you. (Quote by - Stuart Wilde)
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. (Quote by - Eckhart Tolle)
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you (Quote by - Alex Haley)
But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left. (Quote by - Prince Philip)
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. (Quote by - Dr Karl Menninger)
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. (Quote by - Max Depree)
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. (Quote by - Rod Serling)
Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. (Quote by - Philip K. Dick)
I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. (Quote by - Baron Pierre De Coubertin)
How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness? (Quote by - Chief Seattle)
Our intention creates our reality. (Quote by - Dr Wayne Dyer)
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. (Quote by - Neil Gaiman)
What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying. (Quote by - Adeline Virginia Woolf)
This is too much reality for a Friday. (Quote by - As Good As It Gets)
Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. (Quote by - J G Ballard)
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. (Quote by - Judy Garland)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did or did not do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past. (Quote by - Peter Mcwilliams)
Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence. (Quote by - John W Campbell)
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. (Quote by - Umberto Eco)
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. (Quote by - Philip K. Dick)
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. (Quote by - William F. Buckley)
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. (Quote by - Georg Hegel)
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. (Quote by - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic. (Quote by - Richard Eyre)
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. (Quote by - Maurice Setter)
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. (Quote by - Walter Landor)
For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle)
The reality is, there is no point denying this, that Tony has taken a big political hit as a result of what is perceived to be a strong relationship with President Bush. (Quote by - Alastair Campbell)
One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen. (Quote by - Marvel Bell)
Go, go, go, said the bird: bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. (Quote by - Benjamin Haydon)
Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us. (Quote by - Adeline Virginia Woolf)
That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are. (Quote by - Neve Campbell)
No authority is higher than reality. (Quote by - Peter Nivio Zarlenga)
Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies. (Quote by - Brian Graham)
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. (Quote by - Natalie Clifford Barney)
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. (Quote by - Richard Feynman)
I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered. (Quote by - Ed Case)
As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother] (Quote by - John Sentamu)
My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role. (Quote by - Gangaji)
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. (Quote by - Heywood Campbell Broun)
Drugs are marvellous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? (Quote by - Geraldine Chaplin)
I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish... it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality. (Quote by - Michael Jackson)
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. (Quote by - John Lennon)
Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is. (Quote by - Arbie M. Dale)
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. (Quote by - Serge Daney)
He has not commanded anyone among the contingent beings other than to know its own self and the singleness of the depths of its own reality. (Quote by - Bab)
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. (Quote by - John Dewey)
You can get all A's and flunk life. (Quote by - Walker Percy)
For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level. (Quote by - Amit Goswami)
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. (Quote by - Belva Davis)
I don't know how I'm going to react, which is something I'm scared of but also intrigued by. [on appearing on reality TV] (Quote by - Joe Pasquale)
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
The world has to realize this sad reality facing our people, the reality that we are indeed the victims of occupation. (Quote by - Yasser Arafat)
Art must take reality by surprise. (Quote by - F. Sagan)
One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. (Quote by - Jennie Jerome Churchill)
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. (Quote by - Walt Kelly)
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Ask almost anybody if they think the climate's changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ‘yes' and give you lots of examples. (Quote by - James Lovelock)
There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it. (Quote by - B. Quilliam)
Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. (Quote by - Marian Wright Edelman)
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. (Quote by - J G Ballard)
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. (Quote by - George Soros)
I'm just so proud of myself. You always have these dreams about winning, but you never think your dreams will be reality. (Quote by - Christine Ohuruogu)
The space within becomes the reality of the building. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. (Quote by - Norman Douglas)
Elephants, by virtue of their peripatetic nature and complex social structures, do not thrive or flourish when held captive in spatially insufficient enclosures. (Quote by - Mariana Tosca)
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place. (Quote by - Roger Birkman)
I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl. (Quote by - Janet Street Porter)
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks. (Quote by - Ellen Herman)
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. (Quote by - Stanislaw J. Lec)
The bombing absolutely ruined my life. It ruined me physically. (Quote by - Judi Bari)
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Things ain't what they used to be and never were. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality (Quote by - Montaigne)
I am a thread too slender To suspend all this reality. (Quote by - Phillip Pulfrey)
Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it. (Quote by - Heinz R. Pagels The Dreams of Reason)
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Everything you can imagine is real. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check. (Quote by - Edward Burns)
Poetry is the deification of reality. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off. (Quote by - Frank Snepp)
You bluffed me! I don''t like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality. (Quote by - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider)
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. (Quote by - Max de Pree)
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be. (Quote by - Epictitus)
He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality (Quote by - Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)
Doctors said that the test most commonly used to screen for colon cancer doesn't go far enough. They're recommending a procedure that involves photographing the entire colon. I say, don't vie CBS an idea for another reality show. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. (Quote by - Albert Bandura)
I reject your reality and substitute it for my own. (Quote by - Adam Savage)
The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless. (Quote by - Raoul De Sales)
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. (Quote by - Daniel Boorstin)
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. (Quote by - Margaret Anderson)
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. (Quote by - Frank Tyger)
But in the end all religions tend to point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
You get criticized most when you deserve it least. (Quote by - Larry Nyland)
Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything … and just sit still and watch. (Quote by - Lauren Hutton)
How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. (Quote by - Douglas Everett)
If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut? (Quote by - Herrick Johnson)
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. (Quote by - Nicholson Baker)
The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts. (Quote by - Julia Butterfly Hill)
The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not. (Quote by - Simon Blackburn)
Reality is not always probable, or likely. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. (Quote by - Louise Nevelson)
The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality. (Quote by - Robert Fulton)
The resounding advice is to get on with it in your own life and get your own house in order. (Quote by - KT Tunstall)
In reality, everyone is good in bed. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded. (Quote by - John Dobbin)
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. (Quote by - Willa Sibert Cather)
Realism ... has no more to do with reality than anything else. (Quote by - Hob Broun)
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand. (Quote by - Wolfgang Kohler)
What jobs are there in a backwards reality for a dead hologram and an android with a head shaped like a novelty condom? [Rimmer, Red Dwarf] (Quote by - Chris Barrie)
There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end. (Quote by - Olivia Newton-John)
Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness. (Quote by - Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.)
I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I found it too confining. (Quote by - Jane Wagner)
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. (Quote by - George Eliot)
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress (Quote by - Anwar Sadat)
Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays (Quote by - Aldous Leonard Huxley)
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
